Mobile Monday: Top 50 iPhone and iPad Apps in the Finance Category

I knocked around Apple App Store last week researching our year-end Online Banking Report. Below are the current top free finance apps in the U.S. store (note 1). While there are not a whole lot of surprises, several are notable:

Credit Karma maintains its top-10 ranking (#9)

Intuit has three of the top-10 apps (#4, 6, 8) plus #30

Two of the top-5 financial institution iPhone app providers (PayPal and Capital One) do not yet have iPad apps

Three credit-monitoring apps are in the top 32 (Credit Karma #9, Intersections #23 and Experian #32)

Two banks each have two apps in the top 50: Capital One (#6 and #34) and PNC (#25 and #42)

Methodology: I first listed the top 50 iPhone apps from the "Free Finance" category (column 2). Then I went to the iPad store and found their corresponding iPad app rank (column 3). I then listed all the remaining iPad apps in the top 50 and their corresponding iPhone rank (last 20 rows below).

Note: 1. The Apple ranking system is a bit of a black box. But it's generally believed to weigh heavily recent download activity. 2. Easy Envelope Budgeting (#18) is from a San Francisco-based Web developer Dayspring Technologies founded in 1998.